There’s no article up on them yet, but the raw numbers are available here.
| May 2010 | April 2010 | ||||||
| Issue | Dem | GOP | Diff | Dem | GOP | Diff | Shift |
| Health Care | 41% | 48% | (7) | 41% | 48% | (7) | – |
| Education | 40% | 43% | (3) | 43% | 39% | 4 | (7) |
| Social Security | 40% | 42% | (2) | 40% | 42% | (2) | – |
| Abortion | 40% | 42% | (2) | 40% | 42% | (2) | – |
| Economy | 39% | 48% | (9) | 39% | 43% | (4) | (5) |
| Taxes | 36% | 51% | (15) | 36% | 51% | (15) | – |
| Iraq | 36% | 45% | (9) | 41% | 44% | (3) | (6) |
| Nat’l Security | 34% | 51% | (17) | 40% | 42% | (2) | (15) |
| Gov’t Ethics | 33% | 29% | 4 | 34% | 30% | 4 | – |
| Immigration | 32% | 47% | (15) | 38% | 41% | (3) | (12) |
Short version: 9 out of 10, and public trust in the Democrats to craft a proper immigration policy went through the floor.
Not precisely one of the Democrats’ better months; immigration wasn’t even the absolutely worse shift for them. Immigration is still of most interest here: it looks like the Democrats are on track to lose the illegal immigration debate the same way that they’ve lost the health care one – and, yes, that still seems weird to type out. Also: it would appear that, once again, ‘government ethics’ is one of those things that require constant Democratic scandals to move the needle. I think that, all things considered, I can more or less live with that for right now; which is good, because there doesn’t seem to be much of an alternative.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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